Halliburton Declares Dividend

Halliburton (NYSE: HAL) announced that its board of directors has
declared a 2012 third quarter dividend of nine cents ($0.

Halliburton (NYSE: HAL) announced that its board of directors has declared a 2012 third quarter dividend of nine cents ($0.09) a share on the company’s common stock payable September 26, 2012, to shareholders of record at the close of business on September 5, 2012.

Founded in 1919, Halliburton is one of the world’s largest providers of products and services to the energy industry. With nearly 70,000 employees in approximately 80 countries, the company serves the upstream oil and gas industry throughout the lifecycle of the reservoir – from locating hydrocarbons and managing geological data, to drilling and formation evaluation, well construction and completion, and optimizing production through the life of the field. Visit the company’s website at www.halliburton.com.

The company's newly formed pressure-pumping joint venture might result in 1.3 million horsepower of idled hydraulic fracturing equipment one day re-entering an already oversupplied North American market.